Registrar Lock

All generic TLD extensions and some country-code ones support a security lock functionality whose purpose is to prevent unsanctioned transfers of existing domain names. Lots of registry operators that oversee country-code TLDs that do not support this feature are in the process of introducing it for better safety and for the convenience of the domain owners. A domain name can be transferred only on the condition that it is unlocked and only a registrant who has been granted access to the account with the current domain name registrar can accomplish that. New domain names are registered with the lock option activated deliberately, so as to impede any unsanctioned transfer attempts. The lock option is among the safety measures for regulating the transfer of active domain names between registrars that have been adopted over the years.

If you get a Linux shared website hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to administer all domains registered through us via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with just several clicks. All registrations will be shown alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Control Panel and for each one of them you will notice a tiny padlock symbol. Clicking on it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you’d like to transfer it away, you will just have to click once more and that’s it. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domain names are managed in the same location as the web hosting account itself, you won’t need to sign in and out of different Control Panels.

In case you’d like to transfer a domain name from our company to another registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain name ready with just a couple of clicks. All your domain name registrations will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the exact same tool via which you will manage your hosting account. If a particular generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock feature, you’ll see a padlock icon. You can find out if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can change the status by clicking again. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will need to do, so you can proceed with the domain name transfer right away. The change will take effect immediately, so you won’t need to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites.